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Grid Planning Chart

Use the following chart to plan your grid deployment:

The following list describes example values that you can enter in the chart:

• Backbone Private Switch: 192.168.50.0/24 (etho0) - VLAN
• BFC URL: nnn.nnn.200.2
• Grid Controller IP: nnn.nnn.200.3
• Grid Name: gridname
• Grid_ID: 1
• Server 1 (Svr1) IP: nnn.nnn.200.4
• Server 2 (Svr2) IP: nnn.nnn.200.5
• Svr3 to Svr5 IPs: nnn.nnn.200.6, nnn.nnn.200.7, and nnn.nnn.200.7
• Eth0 NICs connected to Brocade VDX 6720-40 Backbone switch. There is no spanning tree protocol active. Any IP addressing scheme can be used.
• Backbone Fabric Controller (BFC) Server: Dell Desktop
  • Hostname: bfc
  • root / ************
  • bfcuser / *********
• BFC URL: nnn.nnn.200.2
• BFC Administrator Login: admin / **************
• BFC Database Replica Location:/var/applogic/BFC_DB_Replica (on BFC)
• Backbone Controller ID: 1
• IP Base: 10.0.0.0
• BFC Encryption Passphrase: **********
• Grid Node Servers: x4 Dell model-xyz each with 2x hexcore CPU, 72GB RAM, 4x 600GB SAS internal drives
• External Public Switch nnn.nnn.200.1/28 (eth1) - VLAN
• snmp Server: x.x.x.x
• Eth1 NICs connected to Brocade VDX 6720-40 External switch. This is routable within the DC.
• Grid Controller Public IP Address: nnn.nnn.200.3
• Grid Controller User ID: firstname.lastname@myco.com
• Grid Controller Password: *************
• Recovery Server Password: ************
• Gateway IP Address: nnn.nnn.200.1
• DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. (Google's DNS)
• Application Address Ranges and Netmask (CIDR): nnn.nnn.200.8 - nnn.nnn.200.14/28